Ongoing
We have several postdoc positions available. Click here for details on these positions.
Recent
October 2024 : Welcome to our new PhD students: Theo Sanchez on the TACC project, Leo Rol on the gradiometer project
September 13, 2024: our article “Quectonewton Local Force Sensor”, published in PRL, is distinguished as an “Editors’ Suggestion”.
September 1, 2024: Robin Corgier, recruited as Maitre de Conférences at Sorbonne Université, becomes a permanent member of the team.
August 1, 2024: Corentin Chopier joins the team as Research Engineer, to work on the Q-SING project.
1st July 2024 : Inès Becerra joins the team as a Research Engineer to work on the development of simulation tools for the CARIOQA space mission.
27 June 2024: the CARIOQA-PHB project, submitted in response to a Horizon Europe call for projects, has been selected for funding. This project, in which our team is involved, will contribute to the funding of phase B of the CARIOQA project.
May 28, 2024: we helped organize a national workshop at CNES on quantum accelerometry in space. Details on site
April 2024 : Kadar Mahamoud-Djama joins the team as a Research Engineer to work on the development of laser systems.
11 April 2024 : Yann Balland defended his PhD on "Measurements of atom-surface interactions with a cold atom quantum sensor". Congratulations !
March 2024: Baptist Piest joins the team as a postdoctoral fellow, working on the implementation of Delta Kick Squeezing in ForcaG.
January 2024 : Dylan Sabulsky joins our team as a postdoctoral fellow. He will be working on the Gyrachip project. Nawel Addi joins us as an engineer on gravimetry activities.
December 2023: QuantaQuest project closing meeting. Read the communiqué on the EDA website. It mentions results to which our team contributed on "the development of a quantum interface and the evaluation of the performances of a quantum synchronisation of two clocks, leading to disruptive improvements concerning the sensors sensitivity"
November 2023: Arrival of a new PhD student, Benoit Kaczmarczuk, who will work on sensor modeling for embedded applications.
30 October 2023: Mohamed Guessoum defended his PhD on "Improving the stability and accuracy of a cold atom gyroscope using real-time control methods". Congratulations!
27 October 2023: Jose Alberto De La Paz Espinosa defended his PhD on "Improving and Atomic Clock on a chip via Spin Squeezing". Congratulations!
July 2023: Our intern Louis Pagot obtained a doctoral contrat of the Ecole Polytechnique. Congratulations. He will stay with us and start this automn on a project on Quantum Control for Atom Interferometry.
June 2023: Nassim Mhammedi is one of the winners of the EDPIF competition for PhD grants. Congrats to him. He will join our team this automn to work on Delta-Kick Squeezing.
31 may 2023: A workshop, organized by SYRTE and the LPL in honour of the career of Christian Bordé and to celebrate his 80th, was held at Paris Observatory in the Cassini room.
May 2023: Our results published recently in PRX Quantum are on the news. See the news of INSU.
27 march 2023: Luc Absil defended his PhD thesis "Towards a measurements of the Casimir effect with a trapped atom interferometer"
February 2023: Arrival of Nathan Marlière, new PhD student on the gyrometer
7 December 2022: Raphaël Piccon defended his PhD thesis on the " Realisation of an atomic gradiometer based on Bragg diffraction"
September-October 2022: Welcome to our new phD students: Joel Gomes on the gradio, Diego Lancheros on the gravi, Tengfei Xia et Ramiz Haditalab on gyrachip, as well as our new postdocs: Valentin Cambier on the gradio and Vidyut Kaushal on gyrachip.
03 Juin 2022: Romain Gautier defended his PhD thesis on the "Precision measurements with a cold atom two axis gyro-accelerometer"
June 2022: the CARIOQA-PMP project proposed in response to the Horizon Europe call "Quantum technologies for space gravimetry" has been selected for funding. This ambitious project, financed with 17 ME and in which we are involved, is coordinated by the CNES, the french space agency. It aims at the development of an atomic accelerometer demonstrator for space, and the study of different scenarios for space geodesy missions.
13 May 2022 : the FIQUgS project submitted in response to the Horizon Europe call "Quantum sensing technologies for market uptake" has been selected for funding. This projet, to whoch we participate, is coordinated by iXblue and aims at developping quantum gravity sensors.
March 4th: Kick off meeting of the Quantum PEPR. Arnaud Landragin presented the QAFCA project (Quantum Cold Atom Sensors: Measurement of the Gravity Field at all scales) whose coordination has been entrusted to our team. The objectives of this project are the development of sensors for geosciences applications and the demonstration of use cases, the development of embedded sensors for navigation and the demonstration of advanced quantum protocols for atomic interferometry. Our partners in this project are the LP2N, LKB and LCAR laboratories, as well as the industrial company iXblue.
December 2021 : the SQUEIS project, to which our team participates, is among the 39 projects selected in the frame of the 3rd call for projects of the ERA-NET QuantERA
October 2021 : Welcome to our "new"members: Etienne Chaumeton, PhD student on the Tacc project, and Leonid Sidorenkov, just hired as a CR2 at CNRS in our team
July 2021: The project TONICS, with which our team partners, has been selected for funding by the ANR in the frame of its generic call for projects.
March 2021: Our results recently published in Nature Communications Physics are highlighted in the media. Read the news on the INSU website and the news in Physics World
26 February 2021 : Our atomic gravimeter is back at the Observatoire ! Some modifications will be carried out in the next months in order to further improve its performances.
February 24, 2021: Publication of our Nature Portfolio paper "Nondestructive microwave detection of a coherent quantum dynamics in cold atoms" in Communications Physics
- crédits: W. Dubosclard, S. Kim & C. L. Garrido Alzar, Communications Physics 4, 35 (2021)
12 February 2021: William Dubosclard defended his PhD on "Enabling technologies for compact interferometers based on atoms trapped on a chip"
November 2020 : The CoQuIA project, submitted in response to the "ANR ASTRID Technologies Quantiques" call for project, has been selected.
November 2020: Arrival of Maxime Pesche, new PhD student on the Gravimeter project
October 2020: Arrival of Yann Balland and Mohamed Guessoum, new PhD students on the ForcaG and Gyro projects, and of Quentin Bouton, new postdoc on the Gyro.
August 2020 : Romain Gautier is the winner of the IFCS-ISAF 2020 Best Student Paper Award
10 July 2020: Remi Geiger is appointed Junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France from October, the 1st of 2020, for a duration of 5 years.
7 July 2020: the synopsis of our article "Laser-based prototype probes cold atom dynamics" has been published in Europhysics News, 51/2 issue.
3 juillet 2020: our article "Self-amplifying spin measurement in a long-lived spin-squeezed state" is on ArXiv
25 June 2020: Arnaud Landragin is one of the laureates of the CNRS Innovation Medal 2020 for his work on the development of ultraprecise sensors for geophysics applications.
15 June 2020: The project QuantaQuest, with which our team partners, has been selected for funding by the European Defense Agency in the frame of the program PADR-2019 for disruptive technologies, such as quantum sensors.
June 2020: Our review paper "High-accuracy inertial measurements with cold-atom sensors" is published in AVS Quantum Science.
Click here to download the accepted manuscript.
April 2020 : Read our review article on atomic inertial sensors
"High-accuracy inertial measurements with cold-atom sensors"
16 december 2019: EPJD has selected one of our recent papers as an EPJD Highlight. Read the news "Laser-based prototype probes cold atom dynamics"
4 december 2019 : Matteo Altorio defended his PhD on "Novel atom interferometry techniques for a cold-atom gyroscope of large Sagnac area"
18 october 2019 : Romain Caldani defended his PhD on "Atom interferometers for the simultaneous measurement of g and its gradient"
15 october 2019 : Romain Karcher defended his PhD on the "Implementation of a source of ultracold atoms to improve the accuracy of an atomic gravimeter"
1 October 2019 : Arrival of Raphaël Piccon and Jose Alberto De La Paz Espinosa, new PhD students on the Gradio and Tacc projects
17 september 2019 : Mengzi Huang has defended his PhD on "Spin squeezing and spin dynamics in a trapped-atom clock"
June 2019 : The Optics and Photonics News magazine of OSA puts forward the recent results of the gyro. Read "The Journey of Quantum Sensing"
July 2019: The project GRADUS led by F. Pereira dos Santos has been selected by the ANR in the frame of its call for projects in 2019
28 june 2019 : Remi Geiger defended his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches
27-28 june 2019 : We organized a "Workshop on matter-wave interferometry : from pioneering experiments to modern applications"
29 April 2019 : Arrival of Sumit Sarkar, new postdoc on the Gradio project
January 2019 : Paris Observatory and CNRS highlight the recent results on the gyro published in Science Advances. See the INSU news of INSU and the Paris Observatory Lumière sur ....
07 January 2019 : Arrival of Xiaobing Deng, new postdoc on ForcaG
20 December 2018: Xavier Alauze defended his thesis on "Optimisation of a force sensor based on ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice". Congratulations to Xavier!
1st December 2018 : Quentin Beaufils joins our team with a CNRS Research Engineer position. Welcome back!
09 November 2018 : Romain Karcher receives the best poster prize at the annual meeting of the DIM SIRTEQ
October 2018 : The project NIARCOS led by C. Garrido Alzar has been selected by ANR and DGA in the frame of the Astrid Maturation call for projects
1st October 2018 : Luc Absil and Romain Gautier join the team as PhD students on the ForcaG and Gyro projects
21 September 2018 : Nicolas Mielec defended his thesis on "Studies for a flat intensity mode optical resonator and its application to atom interferometry". Congratulations to Nicolas!
July 2018: The project PIMAI led by R. Geiger has been selected by the ANR in the frame of its call for projects in 2018
April 2018 : You can read the preprints of our two new papers on arXiv : “Improving the accuracy of atom interferometers with ultracold sources” and “Spontaneous spin squezing in a rubidium BEC”
April 2018: Leonid was selected for one of the "Postdoctoral fellowships PSL in Astrophysics at Paris Observatory"
January 2018 : Seungjin Kim joins the team as a new postdoc on the Gyrachip project
21 December 2017 : Mehdi Langlois defended his thesis on the "Design and realization of a cold atom gravity gradiometer". Congratulations to Mehdi!
November 2017 : our project TAIOL is one of the 26 projects selected for funding by the ERA-NET QuantERA
November 2017 : Leonid Sidorenkov joins the team as a new postdoc on the Gyro project
October 2017 : William Dubosclard joins the team as a PhD student on the Gyrachip project
4 October 2017 : Theo Laudat defended his thesis on "Spontaneous spin squeezing in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate trapped on an atom chip". Congratulations to Theo!
July 2017 : The movie presenting the MIGA project is on Youtube.
09 June 2017 : The article "A determination of the Planck constant using the LNE Kibble balance in air", which reports a measurement of the Planck constant by the french Kibble balance with a relative uncertainty of 5.7 10-8, is accepted in Metrologia.
23 March 2017 : our article "Active Control of Laser Wavefronts in Atom Interferometers" is published in Phys Rev Applied.
13 December 2016 : The Paris Observatory advertizes the recent results on the ICE experiment, published in Nature Communications. Have a look in the section lumière sur ... of the website of the Paris Observatory.
18 November 2016: Satyanarayana Bade has defended his PhD. Congratulations to you, Satya!
16 Novembre 2016: The INSU and the Paris Observatory advertize our recent results on the ForcaG experiment. Have a look at the actualités of INSU and in the section lumière sur ... of the website of the Paris Observatory.
4 november 2016 : Pierre Gillot defended his PhD. Congratulations!
3 november 2016 : Cyrille Solaro defended his PhD. Congratulations!
03 october 2016 : Welcome to our three new students: Matteo Altorio on the Gyro, Romain Caldani on the Gradio and Romain Karcher on the Gravi
30 september 2016 : Konstantin Ott defended his PhD. Congratulations!
26 september 2016 : our paper "Competition between spin echo and spin self-rephasing in a trapped atom interferometer" is accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett. It is also on ArXiv.
09 may 2016: our article "Continuous Cold-Atom Inertial Sensor with 1 nrad/sec Rotation Stability" is published in Phys Rev Lett. More details in the news of the INSU website.
12 February 2016 : Carlos Garrido Alzar defended his "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches". Congratulations!
Rémi Geiger receives the prize Prix Edouard Branly 2015 of the Fédération Française des Sociétés Scientifiques (F2S). The prize was received on monday, January the 18th at 2PM in the "Salle de l’Atelier" at Paris Observatory. Rémi gave a seminar on the recent activities in atom interferometry and inertial sensors carried out at SYRTE.
October 6th 2015 : Jean LAUTIER receives the thesis prize of the DIM Nano-K, in the category Research on Cold Atoms, for his thesis on the "Development of a compact atomic accelerometer for gravimetry and inertial navigation
October 2nd 2015 : Konstantin OTT receives the "Best Student Paper Award", sponsored by the Optical Society of America, at the 24th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors for his talk on "Long high finesse fiber Fabry-Pérot resonators"
September 28th - Oct 2nd 2015: First comparison of two atomic gravimeters, the CAG of SYRTE and the AQG of RESIF, from the Muquans company.
